days, a big national meeting of chairman kim jong un's ruling party as well as his new year's day address, those could be launching back for some really nasty rhetoric. remember, talks including committees between president trump and chairman cam just in this past year are going nowhere. a top chinese official calling this week for the u.s. to in their words "to take concrete steps to get things moving. that is the last thing that analysts are looking at right now in fact, julie, the possibility that north korea might get itself into the next year election schedule. chairman kim one way or another, according to analysts, might try to find himself on that campaign agenda. >> julie: greg palkot, thank you. let's bring in lieutenant james carafano, with the heritage foundation, the vice president for the national security foreign policy there.